One month ago, I entered into a competition with Gyutae Park of WinningTheWeb.com to see who could generate more from PPC affiliate marketing.

The competition wasn’t created as viral to grow our blogs, but rather to push ourselves to spend time learning and working on our campaigns. Unfortunately, I have been preoccupied with many other things lately and only managed to work a total of around 4 hours on my campaigns during the entire competition.

If I had prioritized things better, I definitely could have allotted a lot more time towards the competition. I think one of the reasons why I put absolutely no effort into the competition is because the penalty (reverse incentive) wasn’t severe enough. When Gyutae and I had our first competition in which the loser had to pay the winner $300, that provided a lot more incentive for me than the humiliation video which was what was set up in this competition.

In fact, in some ways I’m happy I lost. The video was fun to make and if anything it will only bring in more traffic, or else get ignored – either way I win. For example, I’m sure Gyutae will post the video on his blog, and so that’s like an entire free paid review for me right there 🙂

Anyhow, here are the final results of my PPC efforts. My campaign seems to have fallen a bit, not really making any money but breaking even, having spent $1,582.12 to make $1,596.80.

I actually finished in the red with -$26.78 because I also spent a total of $41.46 at another PPC source other than Yahoo Search Marketing and Google AdWords.

To be fair, Gyutae was very busy as well but managed to put in more time than me, and finished with a strong final week. In the end, he totalled $194.12 which is great for somebody brand new to PPC affiliate marketing. He’s told me that he’s most likely not going to pursue it because of how wild the fluctuations can be and the time involved, but I think he should stick with it. He’s brand new but already made $200 in his first month… that’s very successful in my eyes. Maybe he’ll make $350 next month and $700 the month after that… it wouldn’t hurt to try it at least another month anyway.

And so… to keep up my end of the bargain, here is my obligatory humiliation video in which I had to recite a speech written out to me by Gyutae.

I read out the speech from my computer and put the camera in front of the screen in case you were wondering why I wasn’t looking directly at the camera.

I’m disappointed in the humiliation. That was nothing! You should have made it something like this:

“Hi, my name is Tyler Cruz, and I’ve got a video confession to make today. I’ve been running Tyler Cruz .com for a long time, but today I want to come clean and admit that all of my income has been coming in from prostituting myself and not from Blogging. My pimp’s name is Gyutae…”

The problem was it wasn’t humiliating enough to give you both the motivation to try harder*. Now I would have said the person needed to dress up as a baby with a man sized diaper with dummy and one of those baby hats, and THEN read your script out. That might have made this competition a little more interesting 😉

This is a really great competition. I love how it pushes you all to do your best with PPC marketing. I really hope you win, but I know it is pretty difficult breaking even with possibly a little revenue.

When Gyutae and I had our first competition in which the loser had to pay the winner $300, that provided a lot more incentive for me than the humiliation video which was what was set up in this competition.

Okay…you said that in this post, yet in the post detailing the competition you said…

I love the penalty idea. It’s a lot more incentive to work hard to win than simply having to give money away. Last time, I lost the competition and have to give $300 away, which didn’t really bother me. After all, I’ve lost $3,000 in one hand of poker in private games around town here before.

So which is it? A sudden case of sour grapes at having lost and wanting to hush-hush the impact of the loss, or simply now realising that money is worth a lot more than credibility to you? Just wondering…

Interesting to read about this as well as the much-publicized Chow vs. Shoemoney “battle”. So I guess we can expect more of the same in the world of PPC in the future? I’m certainly not complaining; it makes for interesting reading and I learn a few things as well!

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It’s always good to see how a competition turns out, I’m sure when you are not as busy you can beat him in the next one – if I was you I would have the prize something more valuable to give you the motivation to win, I don’t just mean money.

It depends on what you class as valuable, pride, money, items etc.

I know the competition I just had with Paul from inspired affiliate helped me because the loser paid out $175 and to be honest – I didn’t have that money to throw away at this stage.

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